Category Archives: Dr. Michael Cunningham

Mohsin Hamid’s novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) and Mira Nair’s film adaptation (2012) offer some answers. We may find it amusing when we read about 15 year old teenagers from Bolingbrook or London who attempt…

A Review of Calvary starring Brendan Gleeson…Jean-Paul Sartre famously said in his play No Exit that “Hell is other people.” There is some dispute about the accuracy of the translation from the French; one…

I recently completed teaching 21st Century American Fiction, a variation on the many Introduction to Fiction courses that I have taught. As I told my students on the first day, I could teach the course…

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE LEFTOVERS. Fiction writer Tom Perrotta’s work is becoming better known because of the HBO Series The Leftovers. The series, now finishing its first season, is about the aftermath of a…